It's just you. ;) I'm pretty sure some of these complaints are older than the Mac itself. The disk-eject semantics of the Mac are almost as classic a topic as the one-button mouse.
Disk ejects were designed under very different constraints in the old days, though. I just had a fun trip down memory lane to the days when the Mac had 128k of RAM, 400k floppies, and one floppy drive. Copying a floppy involved at least 5 or 6 disk swaps. Moreover, and relevant to this conversation, you could eject a Mac disk without unmounting it. That was because the system software lived on the boot disk, which you had to remove to load up your documents from your personal disk, but if the Mac needed to refer to a file on a currently-not-present disk it would prompt you for the disk by name, and so it was important to leave a ghostly icon of the ejected-but-not-unmounted disk on the desktop to remind users that the Mac hadn't forgotten about that disk and was liable to request it at any time, so for god's sake don't let someone take it out of the building...
The complaints that I hear all seem to be the same.
I can't get into my iMac to change the hardrive or ram.
I can't get into my iPod to change the battery
I can't get into my iPhone to change the battery.
I can't get into my Macbook Pro to change the harddrive,etc..
All complaints I've heard often, well before Steve passed on.
